There’s a lot of wasted artistry on the internet. Expert video editing skills are used to construct pointless Wes Anderson supercuts, impressive camera and lighting techniques are employed by insipid teen vloggers, and intricate documentary collages are assembled to prove that the melting point of steel is higher than the temperature at which jet fuel burns.

Enter Brooklyn-based film-maker Kirby Ferguson, who seems determined to raise content to the level of form online. With his 2010 video series Everything Is A Remix, he utilised the zippy motion graphics and rollicking pace of so many inane YouTube hits to produce a nuanced and highly politicised essay on the nature of creativity and the corruption of well-intentioned copyright laws by vested corporate interests.

Five years on, he’s halfway through the follow-up: a spectacularly ambitious “documentary feature released in instalments” called This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory, exploring the human desire to draw conclusions where there are none to be found. Intricately constructed from archive material, animation and even off-the-shelf stock footage, the series cannily exploits the tools of its adversaries (9/11 truthers, Illuminati paranoiacs and anyone else who might use the word “sheeple” with a straight face) to make a case for reason and sanity in an arena dominated by wild conjecture.

With a visual intensity often bordering on the cacophonous, the series occasionally feels like a PowerPoint presentation by the world’s most coked-up history professor. Still, it’s refreshing to see proven facts delivered with a vigour normally reserved for speculative gibberish. For £10, you can subscribe to the series on Vimeo, but don’t expect the next episode any time soon: Ferguson is currently averaging one video every six months, either because crafting something so complex is a time-consuming process, or because that’s how long it takes the FBI to feed him their suppressive lies.